A New Cryptic Species of Calotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from Southeastern Xizang Autonomous Region, China.

IF 0.8 4区生物学 Q3 ZOOLOGY

Zootaxa Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5609.2.8

Kai Wang, F U Shu, Ling Li, Wen-Jie Dong, Hao-Nan Mu, Ming Su, Wen-Bo Zhu, Meng-Fei Zhang, Ke-Ji Guo, Jing Che

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Abstract

Based on both morphological and genetic data, we describe a new cryptic species of Calotes from southeastern Xizang Autonomous Region, China. The new species was confused with C. paulus, and it is morphologically most similar to members of the C. paulus complex (namely C. paulus, C. sinyik, and C. zolaiking), but the new species shows considerable genetic divergence from closely resembled congeners and can be diagnosed morphologically by having more vertebral crest scales, more scale rows at mid body, and more caudal vertebrae. With the description of the new species, we also remove C. paulus from the reptile fauna of China.

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Zootaxa 生物-动物学

CiteScore

1.90

自引率

33.30%

发文量

1895

审稿时长

2.7 months

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